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T. L. GREEN. CAKE HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 6 1917.

- Patented May 20, 1919.

Inveniar: Thomas Green 0H1 gs THOMAS L. GREEN, 0F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CAKE-HAN GER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1919.

Original application filed August 1, 1912, Serial No. 712,651. Divided and this application filed September 6, 1917'. Serial No. 189,974.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS L. GREEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, (whose post-oiiice address is Indianapolis, Indiana,) have invented an Improvement in Cake-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cake hangers,

used for instance in connection with icing trolleys 1n the manufacture of fancy cakes or the like.

In coating cakes with icing a conveyer is employed for carrying cake hanger bars from a loading point to a clipping point and thence to an unloading point, the icing hardening between the dipping and unloading points.

It is an object of the invention to produce an improved cake hanger of economimachine carrying a plurality of my proved hangers;

Fig. 2 is a detail elevation showing the construction of the improved hanger.

Fig. l of the drawing shows an icing trolley machine, the construction of which forms no part of this invention, provided. with carrier chains C. The illustrative device shown in the drawings as embodying the invention comprises a round bar 5 of a length sufficient to extend substantially from one side chain to another and having upturned ends terminating in hooks 7 adapted to be hung on conveyor link pins to be referred to. Spaced at suitable intervals along this bar are hangers 9 made of small wire strands of spring steel or other suitable material. As illustrated herein, each hanger is composed of two strands doubled and twisted together to form an eye 11 and a stiff shank 13 depending a substantial distance beneath the hanger bar and terminating in cake impaling prongs 15. An untwisted doubled strand portion forms the suspensory eye 11. The doubled strands preferably are so arranged that one extends beyond the other. The strands are not twisted throughout their lengths, but are left straight for a substantial distance from the ends thereof. These straight ends are bent outwardly from the shank referred to and upwardly toward the hanger bar to present'two sets of prongs 15 one set being located a substantial distance above the other.

The, doubled strands from which the upper prongs are formed may be twisted around the other twisted strands from which the lower prongs are formed.

The eyes of the hangers may be welded or otherwise secured to the hanger bar, and the hangers may be tinned or otherwise coated to prevent rusting thereof and also to contribute to the binding together of the strands.

A hanger such as described presents a very advantageous construction. Its shank, beingformed of an assembly of twisted wires, presents the necessary rigidity, while its prongs, being of single strands, are sufliciently small to make minimum perforations in a cake impaled thereon and little or no icing will collect thereon. The prongs, being of spring or resilient material, will tend to prevent a sudden jerk or jolt being transmitted to the cake and thus further assist in avoiding mutiliation thereof.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

1. The combination of a bar and hangers thereon, each comprising a body portion formed of wire strands twisted together, and separating to present cake receiving prongs a portion of such strands being looped around said bar.

2. A hanger comprising a shank of wire strands twisted together and terminating in superposed sets of resilient cake impaling prongs.

3. A cake hanger comprising a shank of assembled strands having projections at different elevations presenting cake impaling prongs.

4. A cake hanger comprising strands assembled to form an eye and a shank, and separated to present cake impaling prongs.

5. The combination of a metal bar and hangers distributed at intervals thereon each comprising wire strands assembled to form an eye and a shank, and separated to present sets of cake impaling prongs.

6. A cake hanger comprising a shank and cake impaling prongs projecting outwardly from said shank at different levels, said cake impaling prongs of each level being formed from separate pieces of metal.

7. A cake hanger comprising a shank com posed of metallic strands twisted together and terminating in cake impaling prongs bent immediately from the strands composing the shank.

8. A cake hanger comprising a shank composed of metallic strands twisted together, including an untwisted doubled strand portion forming a suspensory eye, and cake impaling prongs formed by bent terminal strand portions.

9. A cake hanger comprising a shank com.- posed of metallic strands twisted together, some of said strands extending in intertwisted form beyond others, and both the eXtended and other strands having outwardly bent terminals forming cake impaling prongs.

10. A cake hanger comprising a shank composed of metallic strands twisted together and cake impaling prongs consisting of terminal strand portions projecting at an upward inclination immediately from the shank.

11. A cake hanger comprising a shank composed of metallic strands twisted together and having terminal portions bent from the shank at different elevations forming cake impaling prongs at different levels.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

THOMAS L. GREEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

